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LABOUR was savaged by voters in England, Scotland and Wales, in the regional and council elections as the party paid the price for the...

TRADE UNIONISTS have called for pre-emptive strike action to defeat the anti-union laws that the Tory government are attempting to push through parliament. The Trade...

‘Increased use of the private sector is skewing staffing levels in the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to...

THE economic and political crisis gripping capitalism is causing despair and despondency amongst the bourgeoisie and its media representatives at the highest levels. This week,...

LABOUR will not raise taxes for the vast majority of workers but will increase rates for those earning over £80,000, John McDonnell said yesterday. He...

A battle bus toured Heathrow Airport with megaphones, flags and banners yesterday. It was rallying support from other airport workers for the 13,000 striking BA...

SIX unions have asked urgent questions of Gillian Keegan, the Secretary of State for Education, about RAAC affected schools. The general secretaries of six unions...

SYRIAN ‘rebels’ yesterday announced that they are no longer committed to the Annan plan. Major Sami al-Kurdi, for the rebel military council stated that...

THIRTEEN-year-old Chloe Narbonne would have died if it wasn’t for a revolutionary pioneering operation that gave her a new artificial heart, all thanks to...

‘BRING us back into the NHS NOW!’ strikers from SLaM (South London and Maudsley) mental health trust are demanding as they converge on Downing...

THE Assistant UN Secretary-General, Khaled Khiari, has urged the international community to categorically reject any Israeli moves to establish settlements in the Gaza Strip...

‘No negotiator who would give up Jerusalem has a national mandate,’ Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has warned. Addressing guests at an iftar, a fast-breaking...

SOME thirty thousand Greek workers, youth and students held a rally on Thursday evening outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens. Inside, the Greek...

STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...

SECRETARY of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, delivered his Annual Report to Parliament on the Health Service yesterday, to coincide with the publication of...

THE UK unemployment rate fell to 7.4%, from 7.6% for the three months to September, according to figures released by the Office for National...

POLICE raided the Climate Change camp on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport on Tuesday evening, with the aim of intimidating protesters, News Line was...

BILLS are set to rise by 50% in April when the latest change to the energy price cap takes effect, it emerged yesterday, while...

THE RMT has called a National Rail Strike on Tuesday June 21st, when over 50,000 railway workers, including Network Rail, 13 train operating companies...

THE DEPUTY leader of the Labour Party Tom Watson spoke to Andrew Marr’s BBC show on Sunday about diverting the party away from its...

AVERAGE global food prices leapt by ten per cent in the month of July, raising fears of soaring prices for the planet’s poorest, the...

THE Institute of Economic Affairs has called for draconian cuts by the government and has said that government spending will have to...

DONALD Trump has imposed fresh tariffs on more than 80 countries, replacing a blanket 10 per cent duty hours before it lapsed. The new levies...

GREEK farmers staged mass tractor motorway blockades on Thursday and Friday, while also blocking customs entry points into Greece from neighbouring Balkan countries, as...

THE NUMBER of zero-hours contract and low-paid self-employed workers has rocketed by a quarter since 2011 to three million, new research released yesterday by...

ANGRY Gate Gourmet strikers told News Line yesterday that Transport and General Workers’ Union head of civil aviation, Brendan Gold, had visited them on...

Picket lines are out at BBC sites across the country today as 10,000 workers from all three BBC unions – BECTU, NUJ and Amicus...

THURSDAY’S by-elections saw voters completely rejecting the Tories, destroying the LibDems and giving the Labour Party a very stiff warning. UKIP gained its first elected...

LONDON bus drivers are preparing for strike action starting next Monday. Unite has called a series of strikes against massive attacks on pay and conditions...

A CHRISTMAS truce in the Tube dispute was offered today as millions of travellers faced another day of strike action. Speaking at...

unemployment soared by another 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December, the Office for National Statistics reported yesterday. The official unemployment rate...

WORKERS pressure is mounting on the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories at its Annual Congress in Brighton next...

FIVE-to-14-year-olds will be required to learn more ‘hard facts’ under the new National Curriculum announced by prime minister Cameron and Education Secretary Gove yesterday. The...

‘WE want people to march with us on May Day,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Parmjit Baines said yesterday. She was on a campaign team that...

‘AVERAGE private rents are unaffordable for ordinary working families in over half (55%) of local authorities in England,’ Shelter the housing charity said yesterday....

THE RMT national rail strike is back on. A 24-hour strike has been called for Thursday the 4th of June and a 48-hour strike for...

THE FIRST day of a five-day strike yesterday marked an escalation in the college lecturers’ struggle with eleven colleges out on strike. At the College...

THE ISRAELI military has carried out over 140 air strikes against the Gaza Strip, threatening another full-scale military offensive against the blockaded coastal enclave...

THE UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has condemned Israel’s oppressive occupation and its damaging effects on Palestinians’ everyday lives, expressing...

CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...

‘Getting rid of capitalism is the issue,’ said Dave Wiltshire, ATUA National Secretary, yesterday. In response to trade union leaders’ anger over the nearly one...

SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell yesterday slammed the May government’s ‘catastrophic failure’ after the fatal Grenfell Tower fire. Both he and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn demanded...

Health unions yesterday condemned Cameron’s attempt to defend the coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill to privatise and destroy the NHS, as ‘the only...

TEACHERS on a second day of strike action at the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, west London yesterday, were joined in support outside the...

‘WHITEWASH!’, said the furious parents of extremely sick children yesterday, as they branded a long overdue report into the decision to suspend children’s...